Colombo Design
Art Direction, 2025.
The delicate light of dawn filtering through the window and settling on the door as the house awakens; the midday light that rushes across the room, casting anything but reassuring shadows; the warm evening light, comforting and evocative.
The idea is to portray the handle and beauty not as absolute values, but as elements that exist in relation to the space and time for which they are intended. Light becomes the narrative tool of this relationship: it speaks of space and time, of simple and fleeting everyday life. It filters through the window, crosses the room, reaches the handle, and carries with it a fragment of the world.
In the photograph there are everyday objects—external elements brought into the scene by light and never physically present except through their projection. They describe the context and, through color, represent a precise moment of the day or night.
There is no neutral or absolute light. There is dawn, the beginning, the rush to start the day; and there is the return, the moment when a door is closed to rediscover intimacy, or left open to welcome someone. Every moment carries with it a mood, an emotional temperature, a story.
The handle thus becomes the protagonist, immersed in real life. No longer a perfect, finished object portrayed under controlled conditions, but part of something larger—finding its beauty in the relationship with what surrounds it.
The idea is to portray the handle and beauty not as absolute values, but as elements that exist in relation to the space and time for which they are intended. Light becomes the narrative tool of this relationship: it speaks of space and time, of simple and fleeting everyday life. It filters through the window, crosses the room, reaches the handle, and carries with it a fragment of the world.
In the photograph there are everyday objects—external elements brought into the scene by light and never physically present except through their projection. They describe the context and, through color, represent a precise moment of the day or night.
There is no neutral or absolute light. There is dawn, the beginning, the rush to start the day; and there is the return, the moment when a door is closed to rediscover intimacy, or left open to welcome someone. Every moment carries with it a mood, an emotional temperature, a story.
The handle thus becomes the protagonist, immersed in real life. No longer a perfect, finished object portrayed under controlled conditions, but part of something larger—finding its beauty in the relationship with what surrounds it.
